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Fire burned Friday inside the remains of an overturned cargo ship being dismantled on the Georgia coast. (Image: Screen shot from Twitter)
Georgia News| 10m agoBREAKING: Flames engulf cargo ship’s remains off Georgia coast
Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Brown poses for photo with his supporters following a news conference where he announced his bid for mayor of Atlanta outside of Atlanta City Hall in Atlanta, Friday, May 14, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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Tykeisha Dixon (left) and her husband Luke Henderson were reported missing from their Roswell apartment Friday. Her body was found lying on a southern Illinois highway on Saturday morning, and Henderson has not been located.
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Plastic bag cover spent fuel pumps at RaceTrac gas station on Church Street in Marietta, Georgia, on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Motorists throughout Metro Atlanta still struggled to find gas due to the shut down of the Colonial Pipeline distribution network last Friday after a cyberattack. CHRISTINA MATACOTTA FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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Now that Atlanta restaurants such as Canoe, shown here on this year's Mother's Day, are getting busier, issues such as staffing are a problem. (Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Michelle Enjoli unpacks a box at her apartment in Sandy Springs. Enjoli moved from a crowded area in Buckhead to a gated community in Sandy Springs after starting a business and transitioning to working at home full-time. (Christina Matacotta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Cobb County police are investigating a pedestrian fatality wreck on Cooper Lake Road in Smyrna.
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Violet Dowell (left) and Sage Dowell were last seen in Griffin, but could be in metro Atlanta, police said.
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Vernon Jones announces he is running for governor of Georgia as a Republican. A Democrat until January, Jones is running with the blessing, if not the formal endorsement, of former President Donald Trump. (Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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The Chen family, which runs Main Moon Chinese restaurant in Tucker, lost its matriarch Mei Ying Chen on Tuesday when a large pressure cooker exploded in the kitchen.
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August 26, 2020 Lawrenceville - Deborah Clinkscales, assistant principal, directs students to maintain social distance as students wearing masks arrive to Jackson Elementary School for the first day of school amid the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. Only kindergartners, first graders and special ed students are coming back, and half the district's students overall have chosen to have in-person instruction this semester. Students are required to wear masks. Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Tobe Johnson influenced generations of young Black leaders at Morehouse. Courtesy of Morehouse College.
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Democratic state Rep. Shea Roberts of Atlanta talks with Georgia House Minority Leader James Beverly, a Democrat from Macon, during the 2021 session of the General Assembly. Roberts won her election to the House by 377 votes, and a Sandy Springs man challenged the results of that race in court. The lawsuit was dismissed. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Governor Brian Kemp holds a press conference at the state capitol in Atlanta, Ga. on April 20th, 2021 in response to African American religious leaders calling for a boycott of Home Depot over recent voting legislation in the state. PHOTO BY NATHAN POSNER
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Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde's description of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol as "no insurrection" was widely criticized after a House Oversight Committee hearing on March 12. Screenshot via YouTube.
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Gov. Brian Kemp said Georgia will join about a dozen other Republican-led states to halt federal payments of $300 a week in COVID-19 relief that go to the unemployed on top of their state jobless benefits. He said the federal subsidies discourage the unemployed form seeking work at a time when businesses are desperate to make hires. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during a news conference at the State Capitol on Saturday, April 3, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, file)
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U.S. Representative Jody Hice, R-Ga., speaks at a House Freedom Caucus press conference about the Equality Act on Feb. 25, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/TNS)
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi puts her mask back on after a news conference on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington just after she was elected the new chair of the House Republican Conference, replacing Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who was ousted from the GOP leadership for criticizing former President Donald Trump. She is joined by, from left, Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Georgia Tech mascot Buzz carries a graduate off the stage after he received his diploma during the Georgia Tech 2021 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 8, 2021. Two ceremonies were held Saturday for bachelor’s degree recipients, and master's and doctoral graduates' ceremonies were held Friday. (Photo: Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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After Georgia State University graduation at Center Parc Stadium, Rebekah Brodbeck is headed to graduate school after receiving her marketing degree Thursday, May 6, 2021. The school adjusted for the pandemic with graduates placed in pods where they celebrate with friends and family as their names are read, rather than walking the stage. GSU graduated 5000 students this year. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal - Constitution)
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Family and friends of Normisha “MiMi” Monroe gather Saturday, May 1, 2021, at Club Drive Park in Lawrenceville to celebrate the life of the 38-year-old who died along with five other women in a passenger van crash a week earlier. (Photo: Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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